Florent
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Florentius, from florens ‘flourishing; blooming’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/flɔʁɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Florent is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Benin it is the 46th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.4K
- USUnited States1 in 857K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 391 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Florentius, from florens ‘flourishing; blooming’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Florent, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Florent counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #213 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 70K | Florent | 391 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #449 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 3 | Florent | 16 |
| CM Cameroon | #304 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Florent | 34 |
| BE Belgium | #402 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 247 | Florent | 116 |
| BJ Benin | #46 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Florent | 22 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 2.9K | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 388 | 1 in 857K | 378 | Florent | 188 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Florent is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Latin florens, ‘flourishing, blooming’.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, gen. Florentis, pres. part, offlorere to flourish, bloom, from flos, gen. floris. Flower). The name was borne by a num¬ ber of early saints, amongst them bishops of Cahors in the 4th cent. AD, Orange in the 6th, and Strasbourg in the 7th. Vars.: Flewett, Flowitt. Vars.: Florant, Fleurent, Fleurant. Flinders see Fleming
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In French, Du nom latin Flōrentius, dérivé de flōrens « fleurissant, en fleur ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Du latin florens, « florissant »; fête de saint Florent le 22 octobre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin florens, « florissant, prospère ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Florent Schmittb. 1870FRFrench composer (1870-1958)
- Florent Pagnyb. 1961FRFrench recording artist; singer
- Vincent Colletb. 1963FRnot in their usual nameFrench professional basketball player and coach
- Florent-Emilio Sirib. 1965FRFrench film director
- Florent Maloudab. 1980FRFrench footballer (born 1980)
- Florent Balmontb. 1980FRFrench association football player
- Florent Piétrusb. 1981FRFrench basketball player (born 1981)
- Florent Sinama Pongolleb. 1984FRFrench footballer (born 1984)
- Florent Manaudoub. 1990FRFrench swimmer
- Jonathan Claussb. 1992FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 70K | #1,164 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.9K | #210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 378 | #24,726 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #24,726 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 3 | #210 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #219 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 2 | — |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Florent mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Florentius, from florens ‘flourishing; blooming’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Florent a male or female name?
- Florent is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Florent?
- In the etymology graph, Florian, Florencio and Floris are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Florent?
- A machine transcription gives /flɔʁɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Florent have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Florent in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled florent.
- How common is the name Florent?
- In the United States, the national register counted 388 people named Florent in 2020, about 1 in 857 thousand residents.
- How common is Florent compared with other names?
- In France, Florent is the 213th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Florent” — the 213th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.